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Quantum computing breakthroughs draw investment back to sector
Many in the industry believe that a clear route has recently opened up to building large-scale systems that will bring real technical and business advantages.
- Richard Waters
Ellerston-backed video platform draws in big-name investor
The investment from Melbourne emerging companies specialist Acorn Capital takes the total funds raised by Genero to $15 million.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Inside the fight for smartphone-free childhoods
A rising number of parents around the world, who have become addicted to handheld devices themselves, want to ban under-16s from having them.
- Pippa Bailey
Apple’s shares rally after return to sales growth forecast
The tech giant announced $US110 billion in share buybacks and raised the quarterly dividend by 4 per cent.
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- Mark Gurman
Rich Listers sell tech firm Envato for $375m
It was once valued at more than $1 billion, but Cyan and Collis Ta’eed have sold their digital assets marketplace to New York-listed Shutterstock.
- Tess Bennett
Quadrant crows about $500m Canva investment
The deal was led by Quadrant’s Victor Ha and Louis Casey and represents the firm’s single biggest investment.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Opinion & Analysis
So many things wrong with Labor’s one huge bet on PsiQuantum
Venture capital investors typically place many best across multiple different companies and technologies. The government is backing one technology and company.
Federal opposition spokesman for science
Why Apple’s earnings call gives us hope for more exciting new devices
Announcing iPad and iPhone sales that were lower than last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook says something that could make us all want to upgrade … and of course, it involved AI.
Columnist
Beware big tech’s AI profit gap
Amazon’s stellar earnings underscore big tech’s profit challenge: cost-cutting is done, and the payoff from AI investments are still some way off.
Columnist
Only quantum physics can explain an investment this weird
The federal government has replaced sports rorts with a quantum rort that will not make real revolutions like AI go any faster.
Scientist
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You’ll forget you’re even wearing these earbuds
The OpenFit earbuds by Shokz might not look the best, but they certainly feel the best of any earbuds we’ve ever reviewed.
- John Davidson
Does everything still look better in black and white?
Kobo’s first foray into colour e-book readers would be perfect if it wasn’t for one, small flaw.
- John Davidson
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So many things wrong with Labor’s one huge bet on PsiQuantum
Venture capital investors typically place many best across multiple different companies and technologies. The government is backing one technology and company.
- Paul Fletcher
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- Digital Life
Why Apple’s earnings call gives us hope for more exciting new devices
Announcing iPad and iPhone sales that were lower than last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook says something that could make us all want to upgrade … and of course, it involved AI.
- John Davidson
Don’t swat fruit flies – they’re smarter than you probably think
Researchers say many species, from insects to invertebrates, have consciousness. It turns out humans aren’t so special, after all.
- Ed Cumming
Left has abandoned free speech: Singer
The Australian philosopher says: “What used to be things that were generally accepted by people on the progressive side of politics have shifted – and freedom of speech is a basic example.”
- Nick Bonyhady
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Beware big tech’s AI profit gap
Amazon’s stellar earnings underscore big tech’s profit challenge: cost-cutting is done, and the payoff from AI investments are still some way off.
- James Thomson
Fifth Estate backs Airbnb property manager Hometime; kicks off debt raise
Hometime, which is backed by NAB Ventures and ASI Growth, has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Dane Roberts’ Fifth Estate.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
PE giant EQT pays $250m for Potentia’s NewBook; 6.5 times money
Potentia has been weighing its future at the company, hiring RBC Capital Markets’ technology bankers to vet potential suitors.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Quantum Computing
Only quantum physics can explain an investment this weird
The federal government has replaced sports rorts with a quantum rort that will not make real revolutions like AI go any faster.
- Toby Walsh
Amazon posts strong cloud unit sales on rising AI demand
The e-commerce company’s operating income more than tripled as Amazon Web Services and adverts provided a boost.
- Camilla Hodgson
Family-focussed firm offers fertility benefits
Staff at Engage Squared can receive up to $5000 towards fertility treatments.
- Christopher Niesche
Employee wellbeing is a winner in the war for tech talent
In a competitive market where talent is the “most-prized commodity”, a tech workplace’s offering to their employees is crucial.
- Christopher Niesche
- Opinion
- Apps
Apple banned this app for years. It’s now America’s No. 1 iPhone app
Delta is an app that lets you play old-fashioned video games on your iPhone – and Apple had refused to let it on the app store. Until a government crackdown.
- Shira Ovide
April
‘Country mile ahead’: How PsiQuantum won a $1b investment
Chief scientist Cathy Foley said US-based PsiQuantum showed it was a “country mile” ahead of other Aussie companies in trying to build a world-first quantum computer.
- Paul Smith, John Davidson and Tess Bennett
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- Quantum Computing
Quantum computing explained and what’s different about PsiQuantum
The Australian-invented machine uses light particles, which could be a fast way to build a quantum computer but might use too much power.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Quantum Computing
A bold quantum leap to cross the ‘valley of death’
Historically, Australia sprints out ahead of the global pack during the research phase, but fail to commercialise innovations. That’s why the utility-scale quantum computer announced by the prime minister represents such refreshing bet.
- Amit Singh
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Former Afterpay policy exec named Tech Council CEO
Damian Kassabgi, a former adviser to prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, is the new boss of the most prominent tech industry association.
- Tess Bennett
The best Mother’s Day gadget gifts – ranked by price
How much do I love you? Let me count the dollars. This year’s guide doubles as a handy reckoner, revealing how you feel about the matriarch in your life.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Quantum Computing
Picking a winner in quantum is bold to say the least
If the short history of quantum computing tells us anything, it’s that nobody knows where the finishing line is, or if it’s even worth getting to.
- John Davidson
Labor’s bold $1b bet on Aussie quantum start-up
Australia will invest $940 million in Silicon Valley start-up PsiQuantum in a major bet that it will build the world’s first commercially useful quantum computer.
- Nick Bonyhady
Why Apple has a $US300b ‘Made in China’ problem
Apple is gradually weaning itself off China as a longstanding and mutually-beneficial relationship between the corporate giant and the country begins to fray.
- James Titcomb